Structure and evolution of the active fold-and-thrust belt of southwestern Taiwan from Global Positioning System analysis

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 358, Issue , 2002, Pages 75-92

  Hickman, John B ^a,d   Wiltschko, David V ^a   Hung, Jih Hao ^b   Fang, Peng ^c   Bock, Yehuda ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION RATES; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GPS (GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM); GPS MEASUREMENTS; LATERAL MOTION; LOCAL STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; VERTICAL FAULT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GPS; LITHOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNCLINE; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY;

EID: 31544460177     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2358-2.75     Document Type: Article

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